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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does D vow after hearing the counselor?
(a) To show the counselfor that she was tough.
(b) To find her birth father who would love her.
(c) To find her birth mother who would love her.
(d) To be the perfect child.

2. Why do some people take on D as a foster child?
(a) To make her work and keep the house.
(b) For the government benefits.
(c) To abuse her.
(d) As a live in babysitter.

3. What does D ask the narrator and Neeka one Friday night?
(a) If D can come over for dinner.
(b) If they would like to roam with her.
(c) If Tash was home yet.
(d) Why Neeka's mother looks down on her.

4. How does Tash's recklessness get him in trouble?
(a) He loses his friends through it.
(b) He falls in love with the wrong men.
(c) He gets in spats with the police.
(d) He is easily led to crime.

5. Where do D, Neeka and the narrator get off the bus?
(a) Near a dark city park.
(b) At a friend's house where there is a party.
(c) At D's cousin's house.
(d) At the mall.

6. Upon what does the narrator remark concerning the beautiful day?
(a) She hopes all Neeka's days will be this beautiful.
(b) It is ironic that it is such a beautiful day considering where they are going.
(c) She can't wait for Tupac to get out of prison and experience such a beautiful day.
(d) She can't imagine seeing the day through prison bars.

7. What does Jayjones say about black men?
(a) They need to learn to get along in white society.
(b) They should leave the United States.
(c) They are hunted.
(d) They should hunt just as they are hunted.

8. Why is Tash imprisoned?
(a) For illegal drugs.
(b) For assault on a police officer.
(c) As an accomplice to assault and robbery.
(d) As an accomplish to murder.

9. What does Jayjones say happens to black men in the wrong places?
(a) They are beaten by white gan?gs.
(b) They are shot by police without even asking the men questions.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They are harrassed by white police.

10. Why does Randall not tell his side of the story?
(a) He is hospitalized.
(b) He is intimidated.
(c) He hates Tash now.
(d) He is dead.

11. Where does D tell them they are going?
(a) She does not tell them.
(b) No where.
(c) D decides they should just stay in after dinner.
(d) Back to her house after dinner.

12. Where does Jayjones say black men cannot be caught?
(a) Anywhere outside of their front door.
(b) In white neighborhoods.
(c) In expensive cars.
(d) In white nightclubs.

13. How does Randall resemble Tash?
(a) He is calm and somber.
(b) He is religious.
(c) He is devious.
(d) He is an effeminate gay man.

14. Who is Sly?
(a) An effeminate gay man.
(b) A masculine tough man.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A cop.

15. Why is the narrator hesitant about D's request?
(a) She is not allowed to do what D asks.
(b) She knows her mother does not like D and would not invite her to dinner.
(c) She doesn't have the subway fare.
(d) She is supposed to babysit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sly and the other man do at Randall's?

2. Where did Tash play piano before going to prison?

3. Why does going to a juvenile detention center seem appealing to Neeka?

4. How does the narrator describe the prison guards?

5. What is behind the picture from the narrator's mother?

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